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I don't know if this new algorithm has fundamental advantages against what Google's currently doing other than it's not yet being targeted by SEO attacks. You c
by summerlight 5y ago
I don't know if this new algorithm has fundamental advantages against what Google's currently doing other than it's not yet being targeted by SEO attacks. You can probably create a new algorithm which works significantly better than Google for the current web configuration, but it will be only until everyone decides to "optimize" their site against the new algorithm.
Probably in someday, general computational intelligence could solve this problem by understanding the content itself and use it for ranking in a meaningful way. But if you're just trying to utilize some arbitrary, accidental structure inside the data set for ranking, there always will be a way to exploit. That's the whole point of SEO anyway.
- data4lyfe 5y agoExactly. Let's say that MarketRank grows in market share to be the dominant search engine. What's to stop someone from then gaming Reddit / HackerNews posts and comments with bots and fake accounts because the operator understands that these websites now have "community verified rank importance"?
- CityOfThrowaway 5y agoYes, and the sites themselves become valuable targets for M&A because of their outsized influence
- fortran77 5y agoThey're already gamed or easily gamed. You can buy Reddit accounts with high amounts of karma which are sold to people who are trying to do "astroturf" promotions.